Watching Tyler Hanswalk Fart is Special

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During a timeout earlier this season, a TV camera trained on North Carolina’s bench captured Tyler Hansbrough paying keen attention to what his coach, Roy Williams, was saying. You might think listening is routine. You couldn’t be more wrong.

…Now, it’s possible most of the people who were watching that North Carolina-Winthrop game picked up their nachos and threw them in disgust at their flat screens. But I don’t think so. I think there was a significant portion of men who turned to their wives and said, “Look at that kid listen! Have you ever witnessed such glorious listening?”

You can’t make that stuff up.

Since we are on this true blue topic, then we should not hesitate to share a couple of particularly interesting items that hit the mainstream this week.

First is a quick quote in this piece from Jeff Goodman at Fox Sports. I truly can’t believe that I am supporting something that this guy has written…but, for once I think he is sharing something of value instead of telling us all that the Pac-10 is better than the ACC and that Sidney Lowe was a bad hire.

Coaches around the ACC won’t say it publicly, but they are tired of the aggressive Tar Heels star getting his way in the paint and bullying through defenders.

The ‘hating’ didn’t end there. Check out this piece from ESPN’s Page 2 about the “10 Most hated Dukies” of all time. Wow! You don’t see that very often in the media. You also don’t see something as blatantly racist. (I say this half joking). Check out the list. Things do not bode well for you if you are a white guy. 8 of the top 10 are of causcasion persuasion. Ouch.

You know that we go the extra mile on topics…therefore we direct you to Dave Sez’s entry on the Top 10 most hated where – in the interest of equal time – he lists his 1o most hated Tarheels of all-time. How do you evern begin to make such a list?

It’s a pretty good list. I’m impressed by not forgetting Jeff Lebo. Dave could have considered A LOT of names to add. In addition to Hansbrough and his twin Kris Lang, a few others that I would have had a hard time leaving off the list would be Scott Williams, King Rice, Jerry Stackhouse, Jimmy Braddock, Rashad McCants, Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Joe Forte, Julius Peppers, Ronald Curry Ademola Okulaja, and any of the homos that ever sat on the end of their bench and acted like (insert your own critical remark here).

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I always hated Jeff Lebo. I remember watching Carowina play as a kid and listening to the commentators constantly talking about how he was playing hurt (I think he was perpetually hyper-extended, must have been a genetic thing). Anyway, Makhtar needs to move higher on the list for not only being a general jerk, but also for the bold faced lies he told.

I have to say that you should take Julius Peppers off the list. Not because i have any affinity for him, but because he never seemed the type to whine like the rest of them. he might be the only Tarhole I ever “could stand.” He always semmed liek a robot when on the court.

Ktpritch â€“ Enjoyed your comments regarding Lebo. I will add that he also set the all time NCAA record for playing in games with the flu. Whenever he had a poor shooting game you could count on the inevitable â€œLebo had the fluâ€ mantra from the goat fans. Dean also unsuccessfully lobbied the Hornets to draft Lebo after his senior year. This, of course, was regaled in the press as yet another example of Smith undying devotion and loyalty to his players.

I actually liked watching Joe Wolf play. He had perfect form on his jumper and he was a great interior passer. If you ever catch that 86 Maryland-UNC game on classic sports (this is the game with Keith Gatlin bouncing the ball off Kenny Smith’s back and Bias scoring 300 points), there’s a UNC fast break early in the game. They get a 3-on-2 going and (aside from the fact that it’s UNC running it) it’s a thing of total-basketball-glory-and-beauty. They get the ball all the way into the paint and it changes hands about 45 times in the space of three seconds. The Maryland players look like Charlie Brown after a line-drive.

Hated Shammond Williams. Hated his scar tissue (there was so much of it on his shoulder that it should count as a seperate player). What kind of man allows someone to BRAND him?

Hated Hnrk Rdl. Buy a vowel.

Hated Scott Williams. You were a top five recruit, you play for a team that’s perpetually in the top five in the nation. You’re going to play a dozen years in the NBA and win about seven titles. Stop your frigging whining, you big puss.

Hated Rasheed Wallace. Ed Gein had nothing on Wallace. Lawrence Phillips looked to Wallace as a behavioral role model.

Hansbrough and Lang are at the top for me. Big babies who seem on the verge of tears if all does not go their way. Travel, bang, and carry their way to the basket and get praised for ‘toughness’ and ‘will.’

I don’t think there is a player that donned the UNC uniform I haven’t hated. Scott Cherry anyone? I hate the fohkers I see doing broadcasting post career even more: Hubert Davis, Brad Daughtery, Kenny Smith, Eric Montross… I hate Stuart Scott and his bent over positions for UNC athletes.